News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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  • Evolution of a dwarf galaxy in the NIHAO simulations. The images show the gas temperature (red is hot, blue is cold) at different redshift. One can appreciate the hot bubble of gas driven away from supernovae explosions. Credit: NIHAO collaboration.      
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    The energetic youth of the dwarf galaxies that surround us
    An international team of astronomers, led by an ex‐student of the University of La Laguna (ULL), José R. Bermejo‐Climent, and a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), G. Battaglia, finds that some of the small galaxies that orbit around the Milky Way could modify the inner structure of their dark matter haloes already in the first phases of their life due to the energy produced by supernovae explosions.
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  • Imagen de uno de los telescopios MAGIC situado en el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachachos (Garafía, La Palma). Crédito: Robert Wagner/MAGIC Collaboration
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    The MAGIC telescopes help to uncover the origin of a cosmic neutrino
    A world-wide observing campaign with many instruments, in which the MAGIC telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, participated, allowed astronomers to locate, for the first time, the source of a cosmic neutrino coming from outside the Milky Way. The results, published in the journal Science, are being presented today at a press conference at the Headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.
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  • The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Pedro Duque, accompanied by the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo (left) and the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Rafael Rebolo (right). Credit: I
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    PEDRO DUQUE “We will continue to support the Sky of the Canaries as a valuable factor for society”
    The Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation and the President of the Government of the Canaries attended the annual meeting of the Governing Council of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias which was held today at the IAC Headquarters in La Laguna, Tenerife. Among other documents discussed were the Strategic Plan for the Canary Island Observatories, and a study of the socioeconomic impact of the astrophysics sector in the islands.
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